Extending the trench outside Structure Twelve
Dig Diary – Day Six
Monday, July 5, 2021
One of the joys of post-lockdown digging is meeting old friends and colleagues, and today we welcomed back Structure Twelve supervisor… Read more
Category: Excavation
An entrance to Structure Ten’s outer passageway?
Day Five - An entrance to Structure Ten's outer passageway? Read more
Tracing the path of Structure Thirty-Two
Day Three: Tracing the path of Structure Thirty-Two Read more
Cleaning, geophysics and a trench extension
Day Two: Cleaning, geophysics and a trench extension Read more
Back on site and ready for some serious archaeology
Day One: Back on site and ready for some serious archaeology.
We’re back! After two, long and frustrating years life has returned to the Ness of Brodgar. Read more
Buildings through time: Structure Twenty-Seven
For the next in our series looking at the excavation of each major building on site over time, we jump across to Trench T and the enigmatic Structure Twenty-Seven.
See… Read more
Buildings through time: Structure Twenty-Six
The next in our series looking at the excavation of each major building on site over time focuses on the smaller and later Structure Twenty-Six.
The excavation of Structure Twenty-Six… Read more
Buildings through time: Structure Fourteen
The latest in our series looking at the excavation of each major building over time focuses on Structure Fourteen.
See also
3D model of Structure Fourteen: 2016
3D model of… Read more
Buildings through time: Structure Eight
The latest in our series looking at the excavation of each major building over time focuses on Structure Eight.
See also
Video – Structure Eight from above.… Read more
Buildings through time: Structure Ten
Photographs of Structure Ten under excavation over the years. Read more
Buildings through time: Structure Twelve
The next in our series looking at the excavation of each major structure over time focuses on Structure Twelve.
… Read more
Buildings through time: Structure One
Unsurprisingly, things have changed considerably over the years of work at the Ness. So we thought it would be interesting to compile a collection of photographs showing the excavation of… Read more
The Science of the Ness – 2020 Orkney Science Festival talk
In this talk for the 2020 Orkney Science Festival, site director Nick Card outlines the scientific techniques involved in excavation and post-excavation work and is joined by two colleagues… Read more
The Ness – a place of compulsive building, rebuilding and alteration
Diary – Friday, August 14, 2020
Day Thirty
The weather saw excavation on this day in 2012 cancelled. Torrential rain lashed the site for much of the day, leaving surfaces… Read more
Structure Eight – the mystery of the elusive entrance solved!
Diary – Thursday, August 13, 2020
Day Twenty-Nine
We begin today with another pillow stone – this time from Structure Fourteen in 2013.
The beautifully polished stone, similar to the… Read more
Standing stones appear outside Structure Twelve
Diary – Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Day Twenty-Seven
It was all go on in Structure Ten on this day in 2011.
Further excavation of the central hearth revealed it to… Read more
